/sbin/MAKEDEV generates /dev/tty with permissions 0660. However, preventing a process from accessing its controlling terminal makes no sense, so /dev/tty should be world accessible. In addition, udev has owner root:tty and permissions 0666 for /dev/tty. Static /dev should be consistent with udev. Similar arguments apply to /dev/ptmx.
Created attachment 69971 [details, diff] Proposed patch for MAKEDEV
this has been fixed in trunk already, just needed to merge it back to the branches which ive done in svn now crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 Oct 6 21:56 ptmx crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 0 Oct 6 21:56 tty crw------- 1 root tty 4, 0 Oct 6 21:56 tty0 crw------- 1 root tty 4, 1 Oct 6 21:56 tty1 crw------- 1 root tty 4, 2 Oct 6 21:56 tty2 crw------- 1 root tty 4, 3 Oct 6 21:56 tty3 crw------- 1 root tty 4, 4 Oct 6 21:56 tty4 crw------- 1 root tty 4, 5 Oct 6 21:56 tty5 crw------- 1 root tty 4, 6 Oct 6 21:56 tty6 crw------- 1 root tty 4, 7 Oct 6 21:56 tty7 crw------- 1 root tty 4, 8 Oct 6 21:56 tty8 crw------- 1 root tty 4, 9 Oct 6 21:56 tty9
